The first book in the New York Times best-selling series, Blue Bloods introduces Schuyler Van Alen to the ancient world of the undead. Schuyler is an outcast at her prestigious private high school filled with fashionable upper-class socialites. But this off-limits world opens up to her when Schuyler turns 15 and discovers that her peers, like her, are budding vampires. Then vampires start getting killed, and Schuyler realizes something else - they are being hunted.

Masquerade: Blue Bloods, Book 2

The second book in Melissa de la Cruz's best-selling Blue Bloods series, Masquerade is also an ALA Quick Pick. Young vampires are dying under mysterious circumstances, and Schuyler Van Alen wants to know why. So she and her best friend Oliver head to Venice to find the one person who might be able to help - Schuyler's grandfather. But while she and Oliver investigate, preparation in New York is well underway for the ritzy Four Hundred Ball, a vampire gala that hides a startling secret.

Revelations: Blue Bloods, Book 3

As friction increases between undead adversaries, one question demands an answer: Is Schuyler Van Alen a Blue Blood, or can her lineage be traced to the wicked Silver Bloods? As the debate rages, Schuyler is trapped in the Force household with her arch enemy, Mimi Force, and her crush, Jack Force.

When Silver Bloods in Rio break open one of the Gates of Hell, however, the Blue Bloods will need Schuyler: a high stakes, bloody battle must be won, even as Carnavale swirles around them.

The Van Alen Legacy: Blue Bloods, Book 4

As confrontation with the Silver Bloods escalates to even deadlier levels, Schuyler and her peers watch as their glamorous New York lifestyle turns into a battle for survival. Even though no love is lost between Oliver and Jack as they compete for Schuyler’s heart, both human and vampire will have to unite if the Silver Bloods are going to be defeated.

Misguided Angel: Blue Bloods, Book 5

Melissa de la Cruz’s New York Times best-selling Blue Bloods series never fails to thrill fans. Misguided Angel is the eagerly anticipated fifth book in the series, following The Van Alen Legacy. After the death of her grandfather, half-blooded Schuyler fled to Europe with her human Conduit Oliver. But it was Jack, a Blue Bloods vampire, who ultimately won Schuyler’s heart. Now, with Jack by her side, Schuyler must face her destiny as the Blue Bloods’ last hope.

Lost in Time: Blue Bloods, Book 6

Lost in Time follows half-vampire Schuyler and her Blue Blooded bondmate Jack as they head to Egypt in search of the Gate of Promise. But what they find upon arrival in Alexandria isn’t at all what they had hoped for. Everything Schuyler thought she knew about the Gate turns out to be a lie, and they soon find themselves ensnared in a deadly battle against the demon-born.

The Gates of Paradise

Schuyler Van Alen is running out of time. The Dark Prince of Hell is storming the Gates of Paradise, intent on winning the heavenly throne for good. This time he has his greatest angels by his side, Abbadon and Azrael, or as they are known in the coven, Jack and Mimi Force. Will Bliss and the wolves she has recruited to join her win the battle for the vampires? Is Schuyler prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice, the same one Michael was forced to make in Florence so long ago?

Keys to the Repository: A Blue Bloods Book

Lavish parties. Passionate meetings in the night. Bone-chilling murders. Midterms. The day-to-day life of Schuyler Van Alen and her Blue Bloods friends (and enemies) is never boring. But there's oh-so-much more to know about these beautiful and powerful teens. Below the streets of Manhattan, within the walls of the Repository, exists a wealth of revealing information about the vampire elite that dates back before the Mayflower

Bloody Valentine: A Blue Bloods Book

Vampires have powers beyond human comprehension: strength that defies logic, speed that cannot be captured on film, the ability to shapeshift and more. But in matters of the heart, no one, not even the strikingly beautiful and outrageously wealthy Blue Bloods, has total control. In Bloody Valentine, best-selling author Melissa de la Cruz offers readers a new story about the love lives of their favorite vamps - the passion and heartache, the hope and devastation, the lust and longing.

Vampires of Manhattan: The New Blue Bloods Coven

It is ten years after the great War with Lucifer, and the Coven has rebuilt. Leader of the Fallen, Oliver Hazard-Perry, plans to celebrate this prosperity by throwing a 400 Year Ball-and all Blue Blood society will be there. And then, all hell breaks loose....

The Serpent's Kiss

Crossover sensation Melissa de la Cruz created an instant New York Times best seller with the inventive Witches of East End. In this follow-up, everything is going smoothly in North Hampton now that Joanna and her daughters, Ingrid and Freya, are allowed to perform magic again. But chaos erupts with the arrival of Freya’s twin brother, Freddie, who’s finally escaped from Limbo. And Freddie’s convinced that Freya’s fiancé, Killian Gardiner, is the one who landed him there in the first place.

Witches of East End

The three Beauchamp women—Joanna and her daughters Freya and Ingrid—live in North Hampton, out on the tip of Long Island. Their beautiful, mist-shrouded town seems almost stuck in time, and all three women lead seemingly quiet, uneventful existences. But they are harboring a mighty secret—they are powerful witches banned from using their magic. Joanna can resurrect people from the dead and heal the most serious of injuries....

Winds of Salem: A Witches of East End Novel

Freya Beauchamp has been kidnapped and sucked into the past, forced to relive the horrors of Salem and return to the witch-burning hysteria that gripped the small Massachusetts town. Freya's family is determined to save her, but the Passages of Time are closed to the Beauchamp family, leaving them stuck in the present. Joanna, Freddie, and Ingrid must find another way back to save Freya before it's too late. Because this time, when Freya is hanged, she's not coming back...ever.

Stolen: Heart of Dread, Book 2

Nat and her drakon are the last of their kind - sworn to protect what their enemies seek to control - and she's risked her life for their reunion. But fighting for the majestic Blue meant saying goodbye to Wes, breaking both their hearts. Back in New Vegas, citizens are threatened by the resurgence of magic and declare war on all the marked.

Flight: Crescent Chronicles, Book 1

A summer in New Orleans is exactly what Allie needs before starting college. Accepting her dad's invitation to work at his hotel offers an escape from her ex-boyfriend and the chance to spend the summer with her best friend. Meeting a guy is the last thing on her mind - until she sees Levi.

Reckoning: Arotas Trilogy, Book 2

Roseline is left with questions that refuse answers and only the memory of a man she vows to hunt and kill. But to do so, she must call a truce with her sworn enemy. Together Roseline and Nicolae track Fane to the underbelly of London in search of Gabriel's kidnappers. Yet when Malachi - an Immortal with mystifying origin - presents himself as their guide, Roseline discovers she is not the only one looking for Gabriel.

Focus: Crescent Chronicles, Book 2

Freshman year of college is hard even when you're not tied to the future king of a supernatural society. Allie dives into college head first, with Hailey as her roommate and the city of New Orleans as her backyard. As things within The Society heat up, Allie realizes that whether she's with Levi or not, she's in far too deep to turn back.

From Gods: Descendant Prophecies, Book 1

Skylar Rome is supposed to be having the best summer ever before she heads off to college. Little did she know that her whole life was about to change while visiting her cousin. One of the Grand brothers she'd, Mason, saves her life right after meeting her when she nearly drowns at the beach due to unknown forces. Cool, collected, mysterious, and dangerously good looking, Skylar is drawn to him from the start.

Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Prequel

Twenty years ago all the evil villains were banished from the kingdom of Auradon and made to live in virtual imprisonment on the Isle of the Lost. The island is surrounded by a magical force field that keeps the villains and their descendants safely locked up and away from the mainland. Life on the island is dark and dreary. It is a dirty, decrepit place left to rot and forgotten by the world.

Love Is Darkness: Valerie Dearborn, Book 1

Valerie Dearborn wants a life as light and fluffy as cotton candy, but it's more like a puffer fish: pointy, unusual, and - if not prepared exactly right - deadly. In London for graduate school, Val knows she's finally free. Her father and ex-almost-boyfriend are back in California and she's out of the Vampire hunting biz for good. Or is she? She draws the attention of Lucas, a 1600 year old Vampire, and King to his kind. He's also wicked hot.

The Ruby Circle: A Bloodlines Novel

When the life of someone they both love is put on the line, Sydney risks everything to hunt down a deadly former nemesis. Meanwhile, Adrian becomes enmeshed in a puzzle that could hold the key to a shocking secret about spirit magic, a secret that could shake the entire Moroi world.

Hidden Wings

Seventeen is a life changing age for Emma Wise. As her family's sole survivor in a car crash, she is left with a broken arm, and a few scrapes and bruises. But these are only outward marks; inside, her heart is broken and the pieces scattered. Whisked away to Alaska, to an aunt she's never met, Emma starts over. Secrets unveil themselves and now... she doesn't even know who or what she is.

The Ring and the Crown

Princess Marie-Elizabeth, heir to the Lily Throne, and Morgan Myrddn, bastard daughter of the Mage of England, grew up together. Quiet and gentle, Marie has never lived up to the ambitions of her mother, Queen Eleanor the Second, Supreme Ruler of the Franco-British Empire. With the help of the Head Merlin, Eleanor has maintained her stranglehold on the world's only source of magic. She rules the most powerful empire the world has ever seen. But Eleanor's extended lifespan is nearing its end.

Frozen

Welcome to New Vegas, a city once covered in bling, now blanketed in ice. Like much of the destroyed planet, the place knows only one temperature: freezing. But some things never change. The diamond in the ice desert is still a 24-hour hedonistic playground, and nothing keeps the crowds away from the casino floors, never mind the rumors about sinister sorcery in its shadows. At the heart of this city is Natasha Kestal, a young blackjack dealer looking for a way out. Like many, she's heard of a mythical land simply called "the Blue".

Publisher's Summary

The first book in the New York Times best-selling series Blue Bloods introduces Schuyler Van Alen to the ancient world of the undead.

Schuyler is an outcast at her prestigious private high school filled with fashionable upper-class socialites. But this off-limits world opens up to her when Schuyler turns 15 and discovers that her peers, like her, are budding vampires. Then vampires start getting killed, and Schuyler realizes something else - they are being hunted.

You need to be prepared for several things before listening to this book. One, all the kids are skinting rich, even the "poor" ones. Like how Lizzy Bennet is not rich, yet she is compared to others below her. Two, there's barely any vamp stuff and what there is is confusing when mixed with the idea of reincarnated fallen angels. Three, as in City of Bones there's a bit of incest going on that the author is trying to pull off as normal. Like how the pharoahs took sisters as wives normal. Cept it's modern day. No one has a problem with it. Mkay.

That said, it's an okay tale. You can tell the author put some effort in it, well, partially, but I was left wondering why she didn't complete the story. It could have been so much more. Like researching only 70% of your material and leaving it at that. But then, listening to spoiled rich kids get picked to be models isn't all that interesting to me, though it may be to others. And I work in the modeling industry.

The narrator is okay, she's just a bit too old for the reading. We're talking about teenagers and she sounds like she's in her late late 30s. Which doesn't matter, since I know people in their 50s who do voice-overs for teens. Wrong choice.

There's a lot of semi-adventure without the customary wrap-up of certain details. I feel if a reader is presented with a girl named Bliss, we should at least be given a reason for the name. Nickname? Real name? Why name your kid that? Nothing. We're just meant to accept that all girls born in Texas have a chance at being called Bliss. There's other questions too but you'll prolly ask them yourself so I won't ruin it.

It's my firm belief that a first book should stand on it's own. It was clear this author believed she would write a series. She did, but still, if the first book is okay instead of great, what makes readers want to move on? Fortunately for this subject everyone is craving teen vampire love so it'll probably do well.

I have read all of the blue blood books from the series that have been released so far...I only actually bought the 1st audio book for a friend and I must say I do not like the narrator's voice...that is not how imagined the character's voice in my head. They should have chosen a younger sounding narrator's voice...it was just torture to listen too. I give the series 5 stars and 1 star for the narrator.

This series has a lot of promise. I really hated the way it ended, hence the 4 stars, it should really be 3 1/2. The book did tie up a few questions, I like the way the author portrays the vampires in the story. I will be purchasing the next book because I like the story line and am curious as to what happens when she finds her grandfather. All in all not a bad book, not a great one either, but enjoyable.

Narrator was ok, not a huge range of different voices. She did an ok job. At least her voice wasn't grating.

I was looking forward to a new series, but the story is not as exciting as I had hoped. I think if there was a different narrator if might be better. Her voice sounds much older than most of the characters and her TEXAS accent gave me a headache. If your going to talk like a Texan, please come to Houston and listen. We do not sound like that. It's insulting!

I like the characters but I have problems with the story line in each book. Writing short books and ending each one with a hook so that you have to have the next in the series to complete the book you've read is an expensive trick because there's nothing cheap about it. When transferred to audio, the narrative has long pauses between chapters. They are so long, I begin checking my device to make sure it hasn't shut off. Why are these pauses so long? Could it be because they want to lengthen the listed length of the audio book? Do they think that adding five or ten minutes (or whatever the total time we spend tapping our toes wondering what happened to our story) will make us think we are buying a longer book?Then there are a couple of books that are noticeably short, yet they sell for a member price of ten to thirteen dollars. What's up with that? When Stephanie Meyer writes a book, each one is very complete and can stand on its own whether one reads the prior in the series or not. They aren't tiny books that are stretched to infinity, nor are there lengthy pauses. This author should combine two of these books into single books with a more complete story. It would make far more sense. I doubt if I'll be buying any of her other books when I conclude this series as there are simply better writers who try to do a more professional job of completing a story line. One more thing... I gave the narrator a 3 star because she mispronounces so many words in addition to the lengthy pauses, of which the latter is probably due to post production decisions.

I have been looking for a series like this that isn't too immature for a person in their twenties. I found this from the witches of east end TV series that I loved and this series intertwines with that book series- I'm excited to see where it goes.

It's a very short read- give it a quarter of the book to get into it. By then you should be into it ;)

I would recommend this as a book to readers who enjoy a unique spin on vampire myths, in the context of the social structure of high school drama, two themes that I personally greatly enjoy. I liked reading it as a book, and it's been long enough since I read it that coming to it a second time should be fresh and exciting. However, the story was two slow-paced for audio, so I wouldn't recommend the audio version to anyone with a short attention span (like myself).

What does Christina Moore bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

She does the voices really nicely, each of the characters has a distinct personality that comes through just in the way she read it, such as Bliss' southern accent, Mimi's spoiledness, Schuyler's unassuming elegance, it all comes through.

Any additional comments?

If you're into vampires and want something that works really well as an audiobook, try the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead. It's one of my favorite series and I enjoyed listening to all six books. Books two and three especially went above and beyond reading, narrator Khristine Hvam is the best of my entire audiobook library.

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